Accuracy of satellite sea surface temperatures at 7 and 11 GHz

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 3 PART 1, 2010, Pages 1009-1018

  Gentemann, Chelle L ^a   Meissner, Thomas ^a   Wentz, Frank J ^a  

^a REMOTE SENSING SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer Earth Observing System (AMSR E); Microwave radiometers; Sea surface temperature (SST); Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission Microwave Imager (TMI)

Indexed keywords

COLDER WATER; HIGHER LATITUDES; MICROWAVE DATA; MICROWAVE IMAGERS; MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS; MICROWAVE SCANNING; OBSERVING SYSTEMS; OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH; SATELLITE MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE MISSION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; ERRORS; GEOPHYSICS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; MICROWAVES; SATELLITES;

RADIOMETERS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AMSR-E; CLIMATOLOGY; COLD WATER; EMISSIVITY; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY; LATITUDE; NOISE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANOGRAPHY; RESEARCH WORK; SATELLITE MISSION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TRMM;

EID: 84860342953     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2030322     Document Type: Article

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